Note 543 — Chapter II

Harrisse (Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 87) describes it from a copy in the British Museum which is noted in the Grenville Catalogue, p. 764, no. 6,535. D’Avezac, in 1867, noted, besides the Grenville copy, one belonging to the Marquis Gino Capponi at Florence, and Varnhagen’s (Waltzemüller, p. 45; Peignot, Répertoire, p. 139; Heber, vol. vi. no. 3,848; Napione, Del primo scopritore del nuovo mondo, 1809, p. 107; Ebert, Dictionary, no. 27,542; Ternaux, no. 5). Harrisse in 1872 (Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, p. xxiv), added a fourth copy, belonging to the Palatina in Florence (Biblioteca Nazionale), and thinks there may have been formerly a duplicate in that collection, which Napione describes. The copy described by Peignot may have been the same with the Heber and Grenville copies; and the Florence copy mentioned by Harrisse in his Ferdinand Colomb, p. 11, may also be one of those already mentioned. The copy which Brunet later described in his Supplément passed into the Court Collection (no. 366); and when that splendid library was sold, in 1884, this copy was considered its gem, and was bought by Quaritch for £524, but is now owned by Mr. Chas. H. Kalbfleisch, of New York. The copies known to Varnhagen in 1865 were—one which had belonged to Baccio Valori, used by Bandini; one which belonged to Gaetano Poggiale, described by Napione; the Grenville copy; and his own, which had formerly belonged to the Libreria de Nuestra Señora de las Cuevas de la Cartuja in Seville. The same text was printed in 1745 in Bandini’s Vita e lettere di Amerigo Vespucci, and in 1817 in Canovai’s Viaggi d’Americo Vespucci, where it is interjected among other matter, voyage by voyage.